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Art & Photography
Evie Skene
Evie Skene is a second-year Creative Writing and Media Production student at UC. She hopes to write screenplays professionally and through writing and film share her love of stories. When she is not watching movies, reading, or writing, she loves cuddling with her kitten, Rigby, and exploring new mini-obsessions.
Josie Crawford
Josie Crawford is a fifth year Creative and Professional Writing major at the University of Cincinnati. She has always had a passion for creation, and writing grants her the freedom to create the most magical worlds, down to more complex professional documents. When she is not writing, reading comics, or traveling, she spends her time as a boxing trainer downtown. She is very excited to be a part of the Short Vine team!
Poetry
Madison Crock
Madison Crock is a fourth year English major specializing in both Creative Writing and Professional Writing & Rhetoric. She has recently published a chapbook titled Syrinx Collective with the goal to share more in the future. Outside of writing, Madison enjoys watching movies, reading, and playing video games. Aiming for a career in copywriting and editing, she hopes to help other’s stories come to life.
Michele Mergner
Michele Mergner is a returning, adult student to UC in her 3rd year, majoring in Creative Writing. Her true love is poetry. Michele returned to this degree after 27 years working as a nurse, which she still does full-time as well. This degree is a true passion project for her! She and her husband have been married for 28 years, they have 3 sons, 2 of which are in college themselves. Literature and poetry are lifelines.
Kelvin O'Connell
Kelvin is a 4th year English Major at UC. He specializes in reading and loving poetry, especially poetry from the Early Modern to Early Modernism. He is intensely interested in really all forms of art, though, like music, film, art history, and video games. When he isn’t interacting with any of these things in some way, he is probably sleeping.
Interns
Athena Bermudez
Athena Bermudez is a first-generation Chicana poet from the Chicagoland area, now residing near Cincinnati, Ohio. She is currently a third-year undergraduate student at the University of Cincinnati studying English rhetoric and professional writing, and she is the social media manager for Cincinnati Poetry Collective (@cincipoetrycollective). She enjoys watching films of all genres and listening to music from around the world.
Kaitlyn Corbell
Kaitlyn Corbell is a senior creative writing major with a minor in psychology and working towards a certificate in copy-editing and publishing. Rarely far from a fantasy novel, she spends her days reading, writing, crafting, crocheting, or playing Dungeons & Dragons. After graduating this spring, she hopes to pursue a career in developmental editing while working on her own fiction.
Emma Mansfield
Emma Mansfield is a fourth-year Creative Writing student at UC. She is also completing a certificate in Copyediting and Publishing and a minor in Biology. She is gradauting this spring, and hopes to start her MFA in the fall. In her free time, she enjoys baking, crocheting, and reading on the couch with her dogs.
Everett Parrott
Everett Parrott is a fourth year Creative Writing major and Navy veteran. He’s often found deep-diving into new hobbies, binging decades old science fiction franchises, or mixing an unholy combination of spirits to create the next great cocktail. Everett loves sad music and longs for the days when TV shows had twenty-episode seasons that aired every year.
Creative Nonfiction
Sarah Kuhr
Sarah Kuhr is a third-year English major studying rhetoric and professional writing, literary and cultural studies, and copyediting and publishing. They have previously published in Short Vine and look forward to giving others the same excitement they once felt. They currently work for UC Housing Services and spend much of their shift scribbling down poetic fragments at the desk. When not in class, they greatly enjoy oversharing the details of their life with friends.
Jacob Bauer
Jacob Bauer is a third-year English student studying Rhetoric & Professional Writing, Literary & Cultural Studies, Copyediting & Publishing, and Marketing. While writing is his preferred medium, Jacob enjoys finding a good story in all types of media, such as ttrpgs, videogames, and movies. When he’s not in reading, writing or gaming, he enjoys camping and going on hikes.
Yale Miller
Yale Miller is in his final year at the University of Cincinnati, studying Computer Science and Innovation. Over the past three years, he has pursued novel writing on his own in a process akin to digging out of prison with a plastic spoon. Joining the Short Vine community has been an immensely education experience for him both in understanding the landscape of the literary world but also the purpose of his own writing. He is grateful for the opportunity to learn and work alongside such a talented team of fellow writers!
Fiction
Marissa Colzani
Marissa Colzani is a second year Public Relations major at the University of Cincinnati. She is passionate about the written word in various forms, and is often looking for new different ways to express her creative outlet. Reading takes up a good chunk of her time, as well as listening to music, walks, socializing with friends, and writing whatever comes to mind.
Trinity Jones
Trinity Jones is a fifth-year Journalism major with a minor in Creative Writing. She has always had a nurturing deep love for writing since she was 11 years old. Writing allows her to romanticize her everyday life, and she is able to turn her ordinary moments into meaningfulness. Through romance stories and poetry, Trinity is able to articulate her emotions, explore her vulnerability, and give voice to experiences that might otherwise go unspoken.
Ava Shildwachter
Ava Shildwachter is a second year English Creative Writing major at the University of Cincinnati. She is interested in a future in copy editing and publishing and has a love for reading and writing. Working with Short Vine is just what she was looking for to put her on the right path.
Robbie Taylor
Robbie Taylor is a fourth year communications major also pursuing a certificate in public relations. Robbie is an international transfer student at UC from Australia and has been in the US for nearly 3 years. Robbie has a strong interest in the literary world and is looking forward to reading your submissions and learning more about editing and publishing.
Kyndall Perry
Kyndall Perry is a third-year English Creative Writing major at the University of Cincinnati. When she’s not in a deadlock with her own brain, she’s writing fiction stories, talking about everything under the sun to a poor soul, or giving her cat way too many, unwanted, kisses. She is incredibly excited to be a part of the Short Vine team!
All-Time Masthead
A huge thank you to everyone who has worked on the journal in the past.
Long Live Short Vine.
Abbey Estep
Abigail Magoffin
Abigail Pearson
Adama Hawa Diallo
Adeline Gerrard
Alecia Beymer
Alexandria Shear’Ree
Alexis Robinson
Ally Georgiton
Alyssa McDaniel
Alyx Calvin
Anna del la O
Anthony Brown
Ariel Lawson
Armania Heckenmueller
Ashley Albert
Athena Bermudez
Audrey Baker
Ava Calvert
Ava Shildwachter
Avery Miller
Aydin Ventura
Bella Gordo
Benson Moore
Bobby Hompton
Brooke Robinson
Caelan Marsh
Catherine Ladouceur
Ceili O’Brien
Celia Shephard
Charlie Louis
Charlotte Reinke
Chelsie Kilgore
Chrissy Douglas
Connor Ploetz
Connor Weirich
Dana Richard
Danielle Delaney
Dov Bell
Elise Stenger
Elizabeth Farris
Elizabeth Huffman
Elliot Glum
Emily Mays
Emily Selan
Emma Mansfield
Emma Murphy
Ethan Hart
Ethan Mallory
Etta Coale
Evan Trimbur
Everett Parrott
Evie Skene
Felicity Cook
Grace Ertel
Grace Guy
Haley Smith
Hannah Durham
Henry Senturia
Indrid Lovelock
Isabella Jenkins
Jack Morgan
Jacob Bauer
Jacqueline Pegis
Jared Brancatelli
Jasmine Warner
Jayla Thompson
Jennifer Listerman
Jerry Beerck
Joe Jensen Mollie Fortunak
John Blevins
Jonesha Luckey
Jordan Stefut
Josephine Sampson
Josie Crawford
Justin Sangermano
Kaitlyn Corbell
Kara Rose Kowalski
Karley Fryman
Kathleen Decker-Maynard
Kay Reed
Kaycie Embry
Kaz Bitton
Keely Burns
Kelen Thalinger
Kelvin O’Connell
Keyun Tian (Wilder)
Kharis Weidner
Kiara Groves
Koralynn McCall
Kristen Iversen
Kyndall Perry
Kyrie Siepel
Leah Boehmer
Lila Bauman
Lili Alimohammadi
Lily Brown
Lindsey Wyen
Luca Campagnoli
Madeline Barker
Madeline Schrand
Madi Hiller
Madison Crock
Madison Williams
Mae Gloeckner
Marianna Dionysiou
Marissa Colzani
Mars Robinson
Martina Schneider
Mary Klein
Mason Ribar
Maurine Mosby
May Dugas
McKayla Krause
McKenna Belmont
Meghan Whiteside
Meredith Hughes
Mica Hopper
Michele Mergner
Michelle Robinson
Miriam Batsch
Myriam Wane
Nate Murphy
Nate Richmond
Nathan Thomas
Niki Acosta
Nova Heller
Oliver Hunt
Oliver Stenken
Paige Simpson
Pat Thatcher
Paula Zalar
Peter Nelson
Quino Casanova
Rachel French
Rachel Hoermann
Rachel Prather
Ramón Bajeca
River Risk
Robbie Taylor
Roxanne Powell
Ryan Dettman
Rylen Erickson
Sadie Morrow
Sam Singh
Sam Suder
Sami Huynh
Samuel Krimmer
Sandra Riffler
Sarah Dietrich
Sarah Kuhr
Sarah Nold
Sarah White
Skylar Patterson
Sophia Judge
Sophie Capenter
Sydney Brigger
Sydney Cox
Sydney D’Orso
Sydney Llewellyn
Sydney Poynter
Tanner Cremeans
Trinity Jones
Tyler McDonald
Tyler Reilly
Victor Voight
Wajeeh Khan
Whitney Hendrix
Will Gronfeld
Yale Miller
Zoe Behrman
Zoe Elliott
Zoe Gordon
Zoe Wooten